"Out In the Park" takes place this weekend in the Springfield area. We don't want western Massachusetts to feel left out of all the debauchery.
First, on Saturday, Sept. 17 it's the 6th annual "Out on the Farm" day at The Big E fair in West Springfield. "Be seen, Wear red!" (We hope not to read any follow-up stories in the newspaper about fatal accidents involving horses.)
Contact: Eastern States Exposition, 1305 Memorial Avenue, West Springfield, MA 01089; 413-737-2443; fax 413-787-0127; email comments info@thebige.com
Then, on Sunday, Sept. 18 it's the 9th annual "Out in the Park" day at Six Flags New England amusement park. "Be seen, Wear red!"
Contact: Six Flags New England, 1305 Memorial Ave., West Springfield, MA 01089; 413-737-2443; corporate HQ: Six Flags America, 301-249-1500.
"Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Questioning, Intersexed Brothers, Sisters, Friends and Families: For the past 8 years Out In The Park has been a huge success with over 1000 GLBT attendees for the first year in 1997! Each year it gets harder and harder to count everyone, as there are simply so many of us! In 2003, we counted between 2500-3000! There were probably a lot more. In 2004 estimates were between 5,000 to 7,000+. For 2005, who knows how many? We are are anticipating over 10,000! This has been a major event for the GLBT community for the past 8 years.You don't want to miss it! It's more fun than a Gay Pride Parade! We're here, we're queer and we're going have the time of our lives!"
Not to be outdone, King Richard's Faire in Carver will host "Out in the Court" on October 8, to coincide with "national coming-out day" on October 11. "Be seen, Wear purple!" There will be a special feature: the "Men in Tights" contest. Don't miss it!
Contact: 508-866-5391
Hard to believe this stuff has been going on under our noses for so long ... with the parks' knowledge and blessing...and discount tickets! There is seemingly no end to corporate complicity and cowardice. Or our apathy.
The MassResistance blog began in early 2005 with a Massachusetts focus on judicial tyranny, same-sex "marriage", and LGBT activism in our schools. We broadened our focus to national-level threats to our Judeo-Christian heritage, the Culture of Life, and free speech. In 2006, Article 8 Alliance adopted the name "MassResistance" for its organization. CAUTION: R-rated subject matter.
Friday, September 16, 2005
Thursday, September 15, 2005
These "Ministers" Oppose Freedom of Religion
MassResistance noted a stream of pro-gay-"marriage" legislators flowing from the Unitarian Universalist HQ on Beacon Street (right next to the State House!), as the Constitutional Convention was about to get underway yesterday. As these misguided souls walked through the rowdy queer activists in front of the State House (no, the demonstrators' demeanor was anything but calm or mature), the reps clearly reveled in their acclamation.
We also observed several "ministers" in the crowd (you know: clerical collars, accessorized with rainbow silks). "God loves you, no matter what you do!"
And we remembered that the Unitarian Universalists were not only the first to recognize unnatural sex as a basis for "marriage"... They are also pushing group "marriage" or "polyamory". (You can't be "progressive" unless you keep moving to the next new thing.) Yes, polygamy is next. How can we deny these loving groups their happiness? On what rational basis can we say they cannot marry?
And today we read in Bay Windows reports that a group of pro-gay-"marriage" clergy protested an ex-gay program scheduled at Tremont Temple Baptist Church on October 29. Funny, we can't think of examples of conservative clergy protesting outside other churches, whether Unitarian, Episcopalian, or a synagogue, over those congregations' views on homosexuality, abortion, or whatever.
What is going on here? Clearly, while these phony "clergy" say they believe in protecting the rights of minorities, they don't seem to care about the conservative religious views they claim are the minority in Massachusetts:
When Focus on the Family came to Boston Sept. 8 to preview its upcoming ex-gay conference, Love Won Out, at Tremont Temple Baptist Church, the clergy of the Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry (RCFM) refused to let the event go unnoticed. About 20 protestors, many of them religious leaders wearing their religious garments, gathered on the sidewalk in front of the church to argue that Focus on the Family and Love Won Out do not represent the values of the majority of people of faith in the Commonwealth.
"[Focus on the Family] are a minority of people in this community. They do not represent a majority of people in this community. They come from out of state," said RCFM director Rabbi Devon Lerner.... That morning Focus on the Family held an invitation-only clergy breakfast for about 200 clergy to preview Love Won Out, which will be held at Tremont Temple Baptist Church October 29.
Their goal is clear. To silence all opposition to the homosexual and transsexual agenda, even in our churches.
We also observed several "ministers" in the crowd (you know: clerical collars, accessorized with rainbow silks). "God loves you, no matter what you do!"
And we remembered that the Unitarian Universalists were not only the first to recognize unnatural sex as a basis for "marriage"... They are also pushing group "marriage" or "polyamory". (You can't be "progressive" unless you keep moving to the next new thing.) Yes, polygamy is next. How can we deny these loving groups their happiness? On what rational basis can we say they cannot marry?
And today we read in Bay Windows reports that a group of pro-gay-"marriage" clergy protested an ex-gay program scheduled at Tremont Temple Baptist Church on October 29. Funny, we can't think of examples of conservative clergy protesting outside other churches, whether Unitarian, Episcopalian, or a synagogue, over those congregations' views on homosexuality, abortion, or whatever.
What is going on here? Clearly, while these phony "clergy" say they believe in protecting the rights of minorities, they don't seem to care about the conservative religious views they claim are the minority in Massachusetts:
When Focus on the Family came to Boston Sept. 8 to preview its upcoming ex-gay conference, Love Won Out, at Tremont Temple Baptist Church, the clergy of the Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry (RCFM) refused to let the event go unnoticed. About 20 protestors, many of them religious leaders wearing their religious garments, gathered on the sidewalk in front of the church to argue that Focus on the Family and Love Won Out do not represent the values of the majority of people of faith in the Commonwealth.
"[Focus on the Family] are a minority of people in this community. They do not represent a majority of people in this community. They come from out of state," said RCFM director Rabbi Devon Lerner.... That morning Focus on the Family held an invitation-only clergy breakfast for about 200 clergy to preview Love Won Out, which will be held at Tremont Temple Baptist Church October 29.
Their goal is clear. To silence all opposition to the homosexual and transsexual agenda, even in our churches.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
You Can't Placate the Monster
When will pro-family groups learn that they can't placate the monster? The Globe reported this morning that "Opponents tout plans to extend rights to gays."
Same-sex marriage opponents said yesterday that they will file legislation providing hospital visitation and other rights to gay couples that would be offered even if the state enacts a proposed ban on same-sex marriage.
That means that the pro-family groups pushing the new marriage amendment have offered a sop to the queer activists. Did they really think this would satisfy them, or get them to back off even an inch? It's already clear that the dark side smells weakness. Arline Isaacson, chief running-shoe-attired lobbyist for the homosexual agenda, called the proposed benefits legislation a "sham"...
... an attempt by opponents of same-sex marriage ''to make themselves look less mean-spirited, but they know, like we know, that the only way to access the 1,400 legal protections under legal marriage is with a marriage license. There is no other way."
Supporters of same-sex marriage, she said, are focused on preserving those legal protections. ''And we won't be distracted by their silly proposal for these other few rights instead of that," she said.
It is not true, as the Globe says, that VoteOnMarriage's opposition to the Travaglini-Lees compromise amendment (voted down today) was in part "because it would allow civil unions." That amendment would have created and institutionalized civil unions.
We're not exactly sure what VoteOnMarriage's position is on civil unions anyhow, since their newly proposed marriage amendment does not include a provision banning civil unions (as many state marriage amendments do) -- and they surely know the Mass. Legislature will not hesitate to push such legislation. If VoteOnMarriage was against civil unions at the Constitutional Convention today, why doesn't their new amendment language include a ban on them?
Same-sex marriage opponents said yesterday that they will file legislation providing hospital visitation and other rights to gay couples that would be offered even if the state enacts a proposed ban on same-sex marriage.
That means that the pro-family groups pushing the new marriage amendment have offered a sop to the queer activists. Did they really think this would satisfy them, or get them to back off even an inch? It's already clear that the dark side smells weakness. Arline Isaacson, chief running-shoe-attired lobbyist for the homosexual agenda, called the proposed benefits legislation a "sham"...
... an attempt by opponents of same-sex marriage ''to make themselves look less mean-spirited, but they know, like we know, that the only way to access the 1,400 legal protections under legal marriage is with a marriage license. There is no other way."
Supporters of same-sex marriage, she said, are focused on preserving those legal protections. ''And we won't be distracted by their silly proposal for these other few rights instead of that," she said.
It is not true, as the Globe says, that VoteOnMarriage's opposition to the Travaglini-Lees compromise amendment (voted down today) was in part "because it would allow civil unions." That amendment would have created and institutionalized civil unions.
We're not exactly sure what VoteOnMarriage's position is on civil unions anyhow, since their newly proposed marriage amendment does not include a provision banning civil unions (as many state marriage amendments do) -- and they surely know the Mass. Legislature will not hesitate to push such legislation. If VoteOnMarriage was against civil unions at the Constitutional Convention today, why doesn't their new amendment language include a ban on them?
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Where Do You Fall on the "Homophobia" Scale?
Diversity, tolerance, acceptance -- what do they mean? Our friend Susan writes, "In case you thought tolerance and acceptance were OK, read on.... This proves that more is wanted than 'tolerance and acceptance.' " GLBTQI's want to be recognized as "indispensable in our society, and viewed by straights "with genuine affection and delight."
Western Illinois University's Committee on Sexual Orientation uses the absurd definitions below by a psychologist named Riddle. Will 90% of Americans -- those who ascribe to "heternormative" standards and beliefs -- soon be labelled deficient, deviant, or sick by the American Psychological Association? (Note they say there is a "clinical defnition" of "homophobia"!)
Maybe you're already seeing this sort of nonsense in your company. Where do you fall on the homophobia scale? How "homophobic is your attitude? (How is this measured?) Even if you've "achieved" the acceptance level, that's not good enough -- it's still "homophobic"! And if you object to playing this twisted game, will you be fired?
HOMOPHOBIC LEVELS OF ATTITUDE
Western Illinois University's Committee on Sexual Orientation uses the absurd definitions below by a psychologist named Riddle. Will 90% of Americans -- those who ascribe to "heternormative" standards and beliefs -- soon be labelled deficient, deviant, or sick by the American Psychological Association? (Note they say there is a "clinical defnition" of "homophobia"!)
Maybe you're already seeing this sort of nonsense in your company. Where do you fall on the homophobia scale? How "homophobic is your attitude? (How is this measured?) Even if you've "achieved" the acceptance level, that's not good enough -- it's still "homophobic"! And if you object to playing this twisted game, will you be fired?
In a clinical sense, homophobia is defined as an intense, irrational fear of same sex relations that becomes overwhelming to the person. In common usage, homophobia is the fear of intimate relationships with persons of the same sex. Below are listed four negative homophobic levels and four positive levels of attitudes towards lesbian and gay relationships/people. They were developed by Dr. Dorothy Riddle, a psychologist from Tucson, Arizona.
HOMOPHOBIC LEVELS OF ATTITUDE
1. Repulsion: Homosexuality is seen as a "crime against nature". Gay/lesbians are sick, crazy, immoral, sinful, wicked, etc. Anything is justified to change them: prison, hospitalization, negative behavior therapy, electroshock therapy, etc.
2. Pity: Heterosexual chauvinism. Heterosexuality is more mature and certainly to be preferred. Any possibility of "becoming straight" should be reinforced, and those who seem to be born "that way" should be pitied, "the poor dears".
3. Tolerance: Homosexuality is just a phase of adolescent development that many people go through and most people "grow out of". Thus, lesbians/gays are less mature than "straights" and should be treated with the protectiveness and indulgence one uses with a child. Lesbians/gays should not be given positions of authority because they are still working through their adolescent behavior.
4. Acceptance: Still implies there is something to accept. Characterized by such statements as "You're not a lesbian to me, you're a person!" or "What you do in bed is your own business," or "That's fine with me as long as you don't flaunt it!"
POSITIVE LEVELS OF ATTITUDES
1. Support: The basic ACLU position. Work to safeguard the rights of lesbians and gays. People at this level may be uncomfortable themselves, but they are aware of the homophobic climate and the irrational unfairness.
2. Admiration: Acknowledges that being lesbian/gay in our society takes strength. People at this level are willing to truly examine their homophobic attitudes, values, and behaviors.
3. Appreciation: Value the diversity of people and see lesbian/gays as a valid part of that diversity. These people are willing to combat homophobia in themselves and others.
4. Nurturance: Assumes that gay/lesbian people are indispensable in our society. They view lesbians/gays with genuine affection and delight, and are willing to be allies and advocates.
2. Pity: Heterosexual chauvinism. Heterosexuality is more mature and certainly to be preferred. Any possibility of "becoming straight" should be reinforced, and those who seem to be born "that way" should be pitied, "the poor dears".
3. Tolerance: Homosexuality is just a phase of adolescent development that many people go through and most people "grow out of". Thus, lesbians/gays are less mature than "straights" and should be treated with the protectiveness and indulgence one uses with a child. Lesbians/gays should not be given positions of authority because they are still working through their adolescent behavior.
4. Acceptance: Still implies there is something to accept. Characterized by such statements as "You're not a lesbian to me, you're a person!" or "What you do in bed is your own business," or "That's fine with me as long as you don't flaunt it!"
POSITIVE LEVELS OF ATTITUDES
1. Support: The basic ACLU position. Work to safeguard the rights of lesbians and gays. People at this level may be uncomfortable themselves, but they are aware of the homophobic climate and the irrational unfairness.
2. Admiration: Acknowledges that being lesbian/gay in our society takes strength. People at this level are willing to truly examine their homophobic attitudes, values, and behaviors.
3. Appreciation: Value the diversity of people and see lesbian/gays as a valid part of that diversity. These people are willing to combat homophobia in themselves and others.
4. Nurturance: Assumes that gay/lesbian people are indispensable in our society. They view lesbians/gays with genuine affection and delight, and are willing to be allies and advocates.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Emotional Appeals and More Lies
The queer activists knew they'd have to win their fight dishonestly, and avoid the ugly truth about the unnaturalness and riskiness of homosexual sex, or the unbalanced life experience that same-sex parenting imparts to young children.
They knew to frame their demands as a "right" -- because once recognized, a "right" can't be taken away. (Why, you might even get "pro-family" groups to agree with this concept!) As if anyone has a "right" to sodomitic "marriages"; or his employer paying for a sex-change operation; or cross-dressing on the job (a.k.a. "sexual expression"); or demanding a lease for an apartment owned by a landlord with moral objections; or public displays of lewdness; or spreading lies to schoolchildren.
And they knew to troop before legislators as happy "married" couples and "families", asking how the legislator could even conceive of taking away their happiness, of breaking up their family! And claim over and over that nothing has really changed since "gay marriages" began; everything is still perfectly lovely.
Here's how the queer activists won over unthinking legislators (Raphael Lewis, Boston Globe, 9-12-05):
Lawmakers said the change in position developed as they found that the onset of same-sex marriages did little to alter the fabric of life in the Bay State. Gay-rights groups also staged a months-long campaign to win over skeptical legislators by arranging meetings with same-sex couples to discuss their lives.
State Senator James E. Timilty, a Walpole Democrat who campaigned last year in favor of the proposed constitutional amendment, said the meetings were crucial to altering his position because they converted abstract moral arguments into tangible reality.
''At many of these meetings, when I would look at the children of these couples and see that they deserved all of the benefits that I had certainly growing up in a family, the principles of fairness changed my mind and I decided that a no vote was the correct vote," Timilty said.
Over the past few months, 43 lawmakers who favored the proposed constitutional amendment met with same-sex couples, their friends, and their clergy, according to Marty Rouse, campaign director for MassEquality, which spearheaded the campaign.
The meetings appear to have achieved their desired effect. By Friday, legislators' internal polling revealed that at least eight House lawmakers and at least two senators who last year voted for the amendment sponsored by Senate President Robert E. Travaglini and Senate Republican Leader Brian P. Lees have decided to switch their votes.
Boston Globe columnist Adrian Walker writes:
The idea of gay marriage going before voters is anathema to proponents, and understandably so. No one would want to fight three more long years to defend a right that's already been won.
And how did they "win" this "right"? Through an illegitimate, unconstitutional court ruling. Do courts grant rights?
When the Legislature last visited this issue, there was concern that it was a political hot potato. That anxiety has evaporated on Beacon Hill, as many voters seem to regard the issue with relative indifference. It just doesn't directly affect as many lives as, say, healthcare reform.
We're seeing this statement again and again, twice in one day in the Globe: that life has changed little since homosexual "marriages" began. What world are these people observing?
Isn't it a big change to insist on teaching all our schoolchildren about unhealthy, perverted sex and homosexual-headed families because "gay marriage is legal now"? And to tell parents they can't stop it? To enlist our children -- often without parental knowledge -- in a sad, debilitating and unhealthy lifestyle akin to other addictions? To go on to tell them sex-change operations might be the solution to their adolescent angst? To sentence them to family-less, childless futures?
We keep reading, "No earthquakes occurred in Massachusetts after homosexual marriage." Have these legislators heard about the father arrested in Lexington, denied his parental rights under state law? The Little Black Book? The sex-change propaganda disseminated through the gay clubs in our high schools? The pornographic "gay" billboard on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge? The filthy Bay Windows newspapers in our family-neighborhood supermarkets?
Our society will be profoundly affected in ways we can't even imagine yet.
These shortsighted legislators are "thinking" through their emotions and have their heads in the sand. And the big media are right there with them.
They knew to frame their demands as a "right" -- because once recognized, a "right" can't be taken away. (Why, you might even get "pro-family" groups to agree with this concept!) As if anyone has a "right" to sodomitic "marriages"; or his employer paying for a sex-change operation; or cross-dressing on the job (a.k.a. "sexual expression"); or demanding a lease for an apartment owned by a landlord with moral objections; or public displays of lewdness; or spreading lies to schoolchildren.
And they knew to troop before legislators as happy "married" couples and "families", asking how the legislator could even conceive of taking away their happiness, of breaking up their family! And claim over and over that nothing has really changed since "gay marriages" began; everything is still perfectly lovely.
Here's how the queer activists won over unthinking legislators (Raphael Lewis, Boston Globe, 9-12-05):
Lawmakers said the change in position developed as they found that the onset of same-sex marriages did little to alter the fabric of life in the Bay State. Gay-rights groups also staged a months-long campaign to win over skeptical legislators by arranging meetings with same-sex couples to discuss their lives.
State Senator James E. Timilty, a Walpole Democrat who campaigned last year in favor of the proposed constitutional amendment, said the meetings were crucial to altering his position because they converted abstract moral arguments into tangible reality.
''At many of these meetings, when I would look at the children of these couples and see that they deserved all of the benefits that I had certainly growing up in a family, the principles of fairness changed my mind and I decided that a no vote was the correct vote," Timilty said.
Over the past few months, 43 lawmakers who favored the proposed constitutional amendment met with same-sex couples, their friends, and their clergy, according to Marty Rouse, campaign director for MassEquality, which spearheaded the campaign.
The meetings appear to have achieved their desired effect. By Friday, legislators' internal polling revealed that at least eight House lawmakers and at least two senators who last year voted for the amendment sponsored by Senate President Robert E. Travaglini and Senate Republican Leader Brian P. Lees have decided to switch their votes.
Boston Globe columnist Adrian Walker writes:
The idea of gay marriage going before voters is anathema to proponents, and understandably so. No one would want to fight three more long years to defend a right that's already been won.
And how did they "win" this "right"? Through an illegitimate, unconstitutional court ruling. Do courts grant rights?
When the Legislature last visited this issue, there was concern that it was a political hot potato. That anxiety has evaporated on Beacon Hill, as many voters seem to regard the issue with relative indifference. It just doesn't directly affect as many lives as, say, healthcare reform.
We're seeing this statement again and again, twice in one day in the Globe: that life has changed little since homosexual "marriages" began. What world are these people observing?
Isn't it a big change to insist on teaching all our schoolchildren about unhealthy, perverted sex and homosexual-headed families because "gay marriage is legal now"? And to tell parents they can't stop it? To enlist our children -- often without parental knowledge -- in a sad, debilitating and unhealthy lifestyle akin to other addictions? To go on to tell them sex-change operations might be the solution to their adolescent angst? To sentence them to family-less, childless futures?
We keep reading, "No earthquakes occurred in Massachusetts after homosexual marriage." Have these legislators heard about the father arrested in Lexington, denied his parental rights under state law? The Little Black Book? The sex-change propaganda disseminated through the gay clubs in our high schools? The pornographic "gay" billboard on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge? The filthy Bay Windows newspapers in our family-neighborhood supermarkets?
Our society will be profoundly affected in ways we can't even imagine yet.
These shortsighted legislators are "thinking" through their emotions and have their heads in the sand. And the big media are right there with them.
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Queer Activist Intimidation Tactics
We have many friends supporting the VoteOnMarriage marriage petition, and we are disgusted to see the intimidation tactics queer activists are using against the original signers of the petition. The Boston Herald (whose side are they on?) and their _itchy columnist Margery Eagan (clearly modeling herself on the despicable Maureen Dowd) deemed it newsworthy that a website has been set up to publicize the identity of anyone who dares to sign the petition. (We won't go into our reservations about this amendment here.)
The website is called KnowThyNeighbor. It has been denounced by the "more responsible" leaders of the queer movement at MassEquality.
Our friend Viktor has made an interesting observation. In line with the queer activists' other phony readings of the Bible ("God loves everyone and everything they could possibly do!"), this website seems to be trying to imply a Biblical source for their name:
It seems there is a bizarre theme occurring in the homosexualist movement: an admission of the spiritually decrepit state they have fallen into. Some simple examples are the "Southern Decadence" celebration in New Orleans, or the gay nightclub "Purgatory" in Providence, RI. The latest intimidation tactic of the gays reveals this theme in its most disturbing form yet.
We've read about the "unclean" VoteOnMarriage amendment which would legitimize SOME same-sex "marriages". We now see the homosexualists' reaction to it at KnowThyNeighbor.org, the website which seeks to publish, intimidate, and harass those who sign the amendment.
(If you think there is no intimidation from the homosexualists because they are all about "love", think again. Remember some months ago the failed bill that would make the names of petition signers available sooner than currently allowed by law. This bill was supported by homosexual activist organizations, and had it been passed, would have made "it possible for groups opposing ballot questions to gain almost immediate access to the names and addresses of the people who signed the petitions, providing them an opportunity to persuade signatories to retract their support." "Persuade signatories'"? Please.)
The name "know thy neighbor" seems to be a reference to a Bible passage.... But a quick search on Bible.com reveals the aforementioned theme. For starters, the Old English "thy" is obviously not found in modern-day translations, but rather in the King James Version. There is no such phrase as "know thy neighbor" anywhere in the King James Bible. It combines two separate things: 1. To "know" someone; and 2. that particular someone being "thy neighbor".
The word "know"in the Bible is usually a reference to a thing: Thy name, thy ways, thy testimonies, Thy commandments, etc. And when it is referring to a someone, that someone is usually knowing God. The ONLY time "knowing" another person is employed (not knowing another person's traits or qualities, but knowing another person period), it means knowing someone sexually (for example, in Luke 1 where Mary says to the angel, "How can this be, for I do not know a man?") The only time "knowing" was used in the plural was used by -- yep, you guessed it -- the Sodomites, featured in the Genesis story of Sodom and Gommorah.
Genesis 19: 1-5
1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. 3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: 5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
The website is called KnowThyNeighbor. It has been denounced by the "more responsible" leaders of the queer movement at MassEquality.
Our friend Viktor has made an interesting observation. In line with the queer activists' other phony readings of the Bible ("God loves everyone and everything they could possibly do!"), this website seems to be trying to imply a Biblical source for their name:
It seems there is a bizarre theme occurring in the homosexualist movement: an admission of the spiritually decrepit state they have fallen into. Some simple examples are the "Southern Decadence" celebration in New Orleans, or the gay nightclub "Purgatory" in Providence, RI. The latest intimidation tactic of the gays reveals this theme in its most disturbing form yet.
We've read about the "unclean" VoteOnMarriage amendment which would legitimize SOME same-sex "marriages". We now see the homosexualists' reaction to it at KnowThyNeighbor.org, the website which seeks to publish, intimidate, and harass those who sign the amendment.
(If you think there is no intimidation from the homosexualists because they are all about "love", think again. Remember some months ago the failed bill that would make the names of petition signers available sooner than currently allowed by law. This bill was supported by homosexual activist organizations, and had it been passed, would have made "it possible for groups opposing ballot questions to gain almost immediate access to the names and addresses of the people who signed the petitions, providing them an opportunity to persuade signatories to retract their support." "Persuade signatories'"? Please.)
The name "know thy neighbor" seems to be a reference to a Bible passage.... But a quick search on Bible.com reveals the aforementioned theme. For starters, the Old English "thy" is obviously not found in modern-day translations, but rather in the King James Version. There is no such phrase as "know thy neighbor" anywhere in the King James Bible. It combines two separate things: 1. To "know" someone; and 2. that particular someone being "thy neighbor".
The word "know"in the Bible is usually a reference to a thing: Thy name, thy ways, thy testimonies, Thy commandments, etc. And when it is referring to a someone, that someone is usually knowing God. The ONLY time "knowing" another person is employed (not knowing another person's traits or qualities, but knowing another person period), it means knowing someone sexually (for example, in Luke 1 where Mary says to the angel, "How can this be, for I do not know a man?") The only time "knowing" was used in the plural was used by -- yep, you guessed it -- the Sodomites, featured in the Genesis story of Sodom and Gommorah.
Genesis 19: 1-5
1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. 3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: 5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Canada Killing Free Speech on Homosexuality
MassResistance has written before about the dangers of criminalizing dissent on the homosexual agenda. Because homosexual radicals have confused the public and legislators by arguing that their demands are all about "rights", they can next insist that anyone who has an objection to their behaviors and claims must be silenced.
Canada is leading the way down this totalitarian path with its "Human Rights Commission". This is thought control, under the guise of anti-discrimination and "hate-speech" laws. Free speech is being eliminated on this issue. And other issues will surely follow, if they get away with this!
Now in Alberta, a pastor who wrote that homosexuality is immoral and a health risk is being accused of hate speech, and dragged before the Human Rights Commission. It's coming our way soon! From LifeSite News:
[Rev. Stephen] Boissoin is being hauled before the Human Rights Commission to answer to a complaint filed by Darren Lund, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary. Lund made his complaint after Boissoin published a letter to the editor in the Red Deer Advocate, in which he denounced homosexuality as immoral and dangerous, and called into question new gay-rights curriculums permeating the province’s educational system.
In that letter to the editor, Boisson lamented that “Children as young as five and six years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights.”
Boissoin, who is himself no stranger to the dangers of homosexual and bi-sexual activity, since many of the youth he works with fall into that category, repeatedly expressed his concern that behaviour that is dangerous, and sometimes fatal, is being presented as normative and even healthy to the most impressionable. “I was just writing a letter to the editor, to the heterosexual population,” he says, “saying this is something to be very, very concerned about.”
Canada is leading the way down this totalitarian path with its "Human Rights Commission". This is thought control, under the guise of anti-discrimination and "hate-speech" laws. Free speech is being eliminated on this issue. And other issues will surely follow, if they get away with this!
Now in Alberta, a pastor who wrote that homosexuality is immoral and a health risk is being accused of hate speech, and dragged before the Human Rights Commission. It's coming our way soon! From LifeSite News:
[Rev. Stephen] Boissoin is being hauled before the Human Rights Commission to answer to a complaint filed by Darren Lund, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary. Lund made his complaint after Boissoin published a letter to the editor in the Red Deer Advocate, in which he denounced homosexuality as immoral and dangerous, and called into question new gay-rights curriculums permeating the province’s educational system.
In that letter to the editor, Boisson lamented that “Children as young as five and six years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights.”
Boissoin, who is himself no stranger to the dangers of homosexual and bi-sexual activity, since many of the youth he works with fall into that category, repeatedly expressed his concern that behaviour that is dangerous, and sometimes fatal, is being presented as normative and even healthy to the most impressionable. “I was just writing a letter to the editor, to the heterosexual population,” he says, “saying this is something to be very, very concerned about.”
Friday, September 09, 2005
Lexington's Worst School: Estabrook?
Boston Magazine's September issue published a list of the top 100 elementary schools in eastern Massachusetts. Five out of six of Lexington's elementary schools made the list. The Lexington school conspicuously absent: Estabrook. (Estabrook is also absent on their list of 652 schools!)
Hmm, that name rings a bell. Oh yeah -- that's where David Parker met with the principal to work out an agreement (his right under Massachusetts law) regarding his son's exposure to mainstreamed homosexuality -- until the administrators decided to call the police in to arrest him.
Maybe the Estabrook School didn't make the list because of a broken fax machine (maybe the drafts of Parker's agreement never made it to the Superintendent's office?). Or maybe the Estabrook anti-bias committee was considered too biased against traditional families?
Hmm, that name rings a bell. Oh yeah -- that's where David Parker met with the principal to work out an agreement (his right under Massachusetts law) regarding his son's exposure to mainstreamed homosexuality -- until the administrators decided to call the police in to arrest him.
Maybe the Estabrook School didn't make the list because of a broken fax machine (maybe the drafts of Parker's agreement never made it to the Superintendent's office?). Or maybe the Estabrook anti-bias committee was considered too biased against traditional families?
Thursday, September 08, 2005
"Safe Schools"? "Safe Zones"?
It's back-to-school time. Time for parents to pay attention to the latest ploy by GLSEN, the queer propagandameisters who have infiltrated our schools.
One of GLSEN's newer strategies is to demand our schools be "Safe Schools", and to declare "Safe Zones" within a school. Confused, upset, distressed teens are encouraged to go to a teacher's or counselor's office displaying a "safe zone" emblem, where they will be told that maybe their problems are related to repression of their "sexual identity or expression".
MassResistance knows of a teen girl at a Massachusetts high school, assigned to sessions with the school psychologist because of learning disabilities, who was prodded by this school "professional" to talk about whom she had a crush on: "Do you want to tell me about him or her?" This is what's called a "safe zone"! (The psychologist is also the adviser to the gay-straight alliance at the high school.)
Of course, none of this is done with parental knowledge or permission. The very term "safe zone" implies to the student that there's something available at school that he doesn't have at home, at a relative's, at a friend's, or at his church: a "safe" place where he can "just be himself."
See Scott Lively's analysis of the strategy, "The Danger of 'Safe Schools' ", and Newton Tab columnist Tom Mountain's description of how it plays out at Newton North High School.
One of GLSEN's newer strategies is to demand our schools be "Safe Schools", and to declare "Safe Zones" within a school. Confused, upset, distressed teens are encouraged to go to a teacher's or counselor's office displaying a "safe zone" emblem, where they will be told that maybe their problems are related to repression of their "sexual identity or expression".
MassResistance knows of a teen girl at a Massachusetts high school, assigned to sessions with the school psychologist because of learning disabilities, who was prodded by this school "professional" to talk about whom she had a crush on: "Do you want to tell me about him or her?" This is what's called a "safe zone"! (The psychologist is also the adviser to the gay-straight alliance at the high school.)
Of course, none of this is done with parental knowledge or permission. The very term "safe zone" implies to the student that there's something available at school that he doesn't have at home, at a relative's, at a friend's, or at his church: a "safe" place where he can "just be himself."
See Scott Lively's analysis of the strategy, "The Danger of 'Safe Schools' ", and Newton Tab columnist Tom Mountain's description of how it plays out at Newton North High School.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Attorney General Reilly Approves Unclean Marriage Amendment
Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly announced this afternoon that he would let the VoteOnMarriage.org referendum petition to go forward.
This unclean amendment would both ban and certify homosexual "marriage". In a state already drowning in legal and moral chaos, it will further contaminate the waters, presenting voters with an untenable compromise.
We predict the queer activists will immediately challenge it in the courts, because it would violate their "equal protection under the law" (by allowing some of them to be married, but others not.) And they have a point.
Don't waste your effort getting signatures for this referendum. Even if it were a clean amendment (one which would overturn the fraudulent homosexual "marriages" and ban civil unions), and even if it is approved by the voters, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) will likely not let it stand. And if the SJC doesn't block it, some federal judge will. (That's what happened recently to a marriage amendment passed by voters in Nebraska.)
The four SJC judges must go, and their homosexual "marriage" ruling must be overturned. Support that effort: Tell your legislators to support the Bill of Address, H652.
This unclean amendment would both ban and certify homosexual "marriage". In a state already drowning in legal and moral chaos, it will further contaminate the waters, presenting voters with an untenable compromise.
We predict the queer activists will immediately challenge it in the courts, because it would violate their "equal protection under the law" (by allowing some of them to be married, but others not.) And they have a point.
Don't waste your effort getting signatures for this referendum. Even if it were a clean amendment (one which would overturn the fraudulent homosexual "marriages" and ban civil unions), and even if it is approved by the voters, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) will likely not let it stand. And if the SJC doesn't block it, some federal judge will. (That's what happened recently to a marriage amendment passed by voters in Nebraska.)
The four SJC judges must go, and their homosexual "marriage" ruling must be overturned. Support that effort: Tell your legislators to support the Bill of Address, H652.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Boston Queer Paper Pushing "Brotherly" Incest
Why are we surprised by anything these days? Bay Windows, Boston's queer newspaper, gives a positive review to a movie about homosexual incest between two brothers. "Harry & Max" is about brothers, age 16 and 23, who have a sexual relationship. (Next thing you know, we'll have a movie about two brothers wanting to get "married".)
"[T]he best thing about Harry & Max is how natural it makes their unnatural love seem." How surprising that Bay Windows would call any sexual perversion "unnatural"! We wonder how they define that term??
From the review, "Brotherly lust" :
[Made by an openly gay filmmaker], Harry & Max is built around a weekend camping trip in the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles. Harry (Bryce Johnson), whose boy band may have passed its peak, has been living the popstar lifestyle long enough to be used to getting what he wants when he wants it.
But Harry has been largely estranged from his family, partly by choice, and no one has been more hurt by it than Max, who is also going the boy band route but hasn't yet been spoiled by it. Max idolizes Harry and, being gay, is as eager to jump his bones as any of his teenybopper fans.
He got his chance to do that two years ago on a family vacation in Bermuda and makes his move again on their long-awaited camping trip. Harry criticizes Max's oral technique and doesn't let him finish: "I'd prefer that you whack it. It might help you sleep.... If I liked boys and I weren't your brother it might be different."
What he did with Max wasn't Harry's only homosex experience, he admits: "Sometimes I had to - like, for work and stuff."
"[T]he best thing about Harry & Max is how natural it makes their unnatural love seem." How surprising that Bay Windows would call any sexual perversion "unnatural"! We wonder how they define that term??
From the review, "Brotherly lust" :
[Made by an openly gay filmmaker], Harry & Max is built around a weekend camping trip in the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles. Harry (Bryce Johnson), whose boy band may have passed its peak, has been living the popstar lifestyle long enough to be used to getting what he wants when he wants it.
But Harry has been largely estranged from his family, partly by choice, and no one has been more hurt by it than Max, who is also going the boy band route but hasn't yet been spoiled by it. Max idolizes Harry and, being gay, is as eager to jump his bones as any of his teenybopper fans.
He got his chance to do that two years ago on a family vacation in Bermuda and makes his move again on their long-awaited camping trip. Harry criticizes Max's oral technique and doesn't let him finish: "I'd prefer that you whack it. It might help you sleep.... If I liked boys and I weren't your brother it might be different."
What he did with Max wasn't Harry's only homosex experience, he admits: "Sometimes I had to - like, for work and stuff."
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Should "Families" Even Be a Topic In School?
A friend in Lexington has shared an interesting exchange from the town's online political debate on whether there should be any discussion of families in the schools.
MassResistance knows first hand how painful any public entry into this private sphere can be for a child. Adoptees are constantly confronted with family-tree or ancestor assignments. Where is the liberal "sensitivity" to them?
We agree with Lorraine below: NO discussion of "families" belongs in the schools! We all know that liberals have used this ploy to introduce their radical, anti-traditional values into the minds and emotions of little children. Let's shut it down now.
Glenn: It's important for kids to learn about the families of their schoolmates, just like it's important for them to learn about the different countries, languages, and cultures that these families come from. We are teaching them to avoid unfair discrimination against other people, which is the first step of their education in civil rights.
Lorraine: It's NOT important for kids to learn about families. Children don't care as much as parents do. Whatever happened to show and tell where children would talk about pets, hobbies and other interesting things? We are talking about five year old children. It's grownups that have made family the focal point in class.
This is very hurtful to many children who do not live with a mother and father. One mother told me her son was in tears because they were getting a divorce and they discussed families in class. Some children come from single parent homes as well. I don't think this is at all necessary and does nothing to educate children. They will find these things out for themselves in time.
Glenn: I haven't heard any children debating the social issues of the day at Estabrook. Seems to me the only people looking for a debate were David Parker and his supporters, and they brought the debate into the schools (literally).
Lorraine: Are you there when all this takes place? Parents are not invited or allowed at these talks.
Glenn: What exactly is there to debate, anyway? Do you want to debate whether there exist families with two moms, or two dads, or only one mom, or whatever? Do you want to debate whether such families are legal and respectable? Do you want to debate whether we should treat all families fairly and equally? Because those are the only issues up for debate, as far as I can see. At no point has sexual reproduction or sex education (or GLSEN for that matter) ever entered the discussion surrounding David Parker.
Lorraine: Six years ago, when I became aware of what was happening, there was a book the schools were reading to the children, "Heather Has Two Mommies". Part of the book was about artificial insemination. Can you imagine a five year old knowing what that means? I can't. I called so much attention to the book it was reprinted without that information in it. I still have that original book. They will try to say and do whatever they can get away with. Parents need to know what their children are being taught. I was also told by the school that oral sex and sodomy were also discussed in the high school which I also opposed. It's a well known fact that GLSEN, the homosexual organization, is in the schools. Same sex marriage is only legal in ONE state, Massachusetts. Eighteen other states have voted against it since it became legal in our looney state.
Glenn: FAMILIES SHOULD NOT BE DISCUSSED IN SCHOOL. Do you realize how completely absurd this statement is? No, probably not.
Lorraine: You think you are so smart when it's sarcasm that you're so good at. Glenn, it's not absurd at all. If two children fight about a toy all the time no matter how many times you talk to them about sharing, what would you do with the toy? Take it away from them, of course. Well there seems to be a similar situation in the schools. Parents do not agree with what's being taught to the children and can't come to an agreement, or even talk about it. What do you think should happen? I think that part of the curriculum should be eliminated to satisfy everyone and bring peace into the schools again. That doesn't mean one family is more important than another but equally important. I have nothing against homosexuals but I don't believe in same sex marriage and never will. I didn't like the fact that the school taught my children about it before it was even legal. Should I be outraged, you bet I am.
Glenn: I believe the schools should be a neutral place for all children to learn without outside interference (GLSEN) in the schools. Students should be taught respect for each other, period. Respect begins with understanding and accepting the larger reality that we all live in. Instead, you would undercut respect by denying basic recognition and fairness to people living in your own town. It's time for you to go back and review the Golden Rule.
Lorraine: Glenn, the Lord says "love thy neighbor", and I do. It doesn't say we have to agree with them when we think it's wrong. I don't like a one way school system, one way people, or one way streets. {;-)
MassResistance knows first hand how painful any public entry into this private sphere can be for a child. Adoptees are constantly confronted with family-tree or ancestor assignments. Where is the liberal "sensitivity" to them?
We agree with Lorraine below: NO discussion of "families" belongs in the schools! We all know that liberals have used this ploy to introduce their radical, anti-traditional values into the minds and emotions of little children. Let's shut it down now.
Glenn: It's important for kids to learn about the families of their schoolmates, just like it's important for them to learn about the different countries, languages, and cultures that these families come from. We are teaching them to avoid unfair discrimination against other people, which is the first step of their education in civil rights.
Lorraine: It's NOT important for kids to learn about families. Children don't care as much as parents do. Whatever happened to show and tell where children would talk about pets, hobbies and other interesting things? We are talking about five year old children. It's grownups that have made family the focal point in class.
This is very hurtful to many children who do not live with a mother and father. One mother told me her son was in tears because they were getting a divorce and they discussed families in class. Some children come from single parent homes as well. I don't think this is at all necessary and does nothing to educate children. They will find these things out for themselves in time.
Glenn: I haven't heard any children debating the social issues of the day at Estabrook. Seems to me the only people looking for a debate were David Parker and his supporters, and they brought the debate into the schools (literally).
Lorraine: Are you there when all this takes place? Parents are not invited or allowed at these talks.
Glenn: What exactly is there to debate, anyway? Do you want to debate whether there exist families with two moms, or two dads, or only one mom, or whatever? Do you want to debate whether such families are legal and respectable? Do you want to debate whether we should treat all families fairly and equally? Because those are the only issues up for debate, as far as I can see. At no point has sexual reproduction or sex education (or GLSEN for that matter) ever entered the discussion surrounding David Parker.
Lorraine: Six years ago, when I became aware of what was happening, there was a book the schools were reading to the children, "Heather Has Two Mommies". Part of the book was about artificial insemination. Can you imagine a five year old knowing what that means? I can't. I called so much attention to the book it was reprinted without that information in it. I still have that original book. They will try to say and do whatever they can get away with. Parents need to know what their children are being taught. I was also told by the school that oral sex and sodomy were also discussed in the high school which I also opposed. It's a well known fact that GLSEN, the homosexual organization, is in the schools. Same sex marriage is only legal in ONE state, Massachusetts. Eighteen other states have voted against it since it became legal in our looney state.
Glenn: FAMILIES SHOULD NOT BE DISCUSSED IN SCHOOL. Do you realize how completely absurd this statement is? No, probably not.
Lorraine: You think you are so smart when it's sarcasm that you're so good at. Glenn, it's not absurd at all. If two children fight about a toy all the time no matter how many times you talk to them about sharing, what would you do with the toy? Take it away from them, of course. Well there seems to be a similar situation in the schools. Parents do not agree with what's being taught to the children and can't come to an agreement, or even talk about it. What do you think should happen? I think that part of the curriculum should be eliminated to satisfy everyone and bring peace into the schools again. That doesn't mean one family is more important than another but equally important. I have nothing against homosexuals but I don't believe in same sex marriage and never will. I didn't like the fact that the school taught my children about it before it was even legal. Should I be outraged, you bet I am.
Glenn: I believe the schools should be a neutral place for all children to learn without outside interference (GLSEN) in the schools. Students should be taught respect for each other, period. Respect begins with understanding and accepting the larger reality that we all live in. Instead, you would undercut respect by denying basic recognition and fairness to people living in your own town. It's time for you to go back and review the Golden Rule.
Lorraine: Glenn, the Lord says "love thy neighbor", and I do. It doesn't say we have to agree with them when we think it's wrong. I don't like a one way school system, one way people, or one way streets. {;-)
Radical Demonstration Planned Against David Parker
Thought you'd like to see what the radical homosexual activists have planned to counter the demonstration supporting David Parker in Lexington this Tuesday evening, September 6.
The notice below is from Meg Soens (click here for her "wedding" photo), who is organizing the demonstration. She has a little website for her "Respecting Differences" front organization. (Note that the Lexington Police Dept. is listed as a supporter of her group!)
We wrote in May: "Lesbian radical activist ... Soens pops up all over town, including the Estabrook School anti-bias committee. How interesting that Soens also led a session at the infamous "Fistgate" GLSEN workshop in 2000, on how to incorporate gay and lesbian issues into an elementary school curriculum."
By the way, Meg has it wrong below about Mass. Family Institute running the rally. It is actually being organized by a grassroots group of Parker supporters. (And P.S. to Meg: You might want to check your distribution list, as MassResistance is surely not on your steering committee!) Here's what she has sent out to rally her troops:
Dear Respecting Differences steering committee friends --
I hope you all had a restful summer – and you wouldn’t be hearing from me now when summer isn’t quite yet gone if it wasn’t urgent.
We (wearing my hat as Lexington CARES co-chair) recently heard that the day after Labor Day (and the day before school starts again in Lexington) the largest statewide anti-gay political group in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Family Institute, will be holding a rally on our Lexington Green in support of David Parker and his discriminatory demands on our public schools. They will also be holding a candlelight vigil at the same time at Depot Sq., and will be holding signs and having a literature table in front of CVS and on all the corners across from the store. Looks like a saturation bombing campaign!
Mr. Parker is the Estabrook Elementary school parent who got himself arrested last April when the school officials refused to accede to his demands for “notification” and “excusing his child” that would have effectively forced the teachers and schools to make the kids of gay and lesbian headed families feel unwelcome and unsafe by sending the message that their families were bad and somehow dangerous. In other words, his demands would force the schools to discriminate against the children of gay and lesbian headed families.
Now the MFI is working with Mr. Parker to further their own broad anti-gay political agenda and intimidate local school and town officials and residents, and we need to counter their message. Lexington C.A.R.E.S., the media campaign group formed to counter the distorted messages that Parker and his right wing allies were so successfully putting out to the media, is organizing a silent counter vigil at the same time, and it makes such sense for those involved in the Respecting Differences Coalition to support and take part in this effort to bring the truth about the discriminatory demands out. To be effective, we need everyone who can make it to come and stand up for inclusive schools, and for all families in our schools. I expect that MFI will be bussin! g in people from all over the state since they have done that several times for the Constitutional Conventions recently, and we don’t need to match their numbers, but we do need a strong showing of Lexington folks to demonstrate opposition to Parker’s demands that would hurt our kids right here in our town and undermine years of commitment and work on the part of the Lexington public schools to create classrooms that are welcoming and safe for all children. If there is only one time this year when you can come out to an event in this arena, this is the one to come to.
Lexington CARES has put together a plan for a peaceful non-confrontationalsilent witness during the events : we will assemble at the town Visitor Center at 4:45 pm, (centrally located between the Green, where their rally will be held, and Depot Square, where their vigil will be held) and then walk in groups to the various MFI events to silently walk on the sidewalk with our signs. We are working with town management and safety officials to plan all this. Children are welcome, and since the rally goes from 5 pm until 7 pm you might encourage parents to bring picnics for their kids to be eaten at our gathering place, the Visitor Center. We will be behaving in the same way we did with the Phelps witness, basically silent, no interaction with the rally people. I also ask that if the press approach you, you direct them to the designated spokespeople of Lex C.A.R.E.S. who have media training and a great deal of practice getting our message about inclusive schools out there in interviews. Finally, LexCARES is asking that people not wear rainbow flags political buttons etc. to make it harder for the MFI to make it look like we are all gay and it is a gay versus straight battle. In addition, not bringing the rainbow flags underlines the fact that there is a broader principle underlying the struggle, that of treating all humans with dignity and respect, not just gay human beings.
So, please come to the Visitor Center on September 6 at 4:45, or one of our witness places after that, and please publicize our silent vigil as widely as possible. I also ask that you bring as many sympathetic people with you as possible. Personal phone calls are by far the most effective method especially given the tightness of time.
This is really a time your physical presence will make a very big difference both in terms of bearing witness to our town, and to the Boston area.
Also, if you have suggestions or reflections on this, I hope you will share them. I will be back in touch later in September about our first RD meeting for the year. I will be sending out this basic message to the entire RD list this afternoon, after time for some feedback from you. If you can call some people to come, I am copying a suggested telephone script below fyi Contact me if you can make some calls since I am coordinating the phone calling effort for LexCARES.
What else should RD do in regard to this event? A letter or commentary in the MM? A forum about the issues in October? Also, if you are individually interested in learning more about LEXCARES and perhaps joining, let me know and I will forward your email addresses to the person who is doing that piece of the work.
Thank you! And we will get together in the next few weeks to get going on Our other efforts in this town! Meg
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Telephone Script for 9/6 Gathering Hi, this is . I'm calling to let you know about a rally in front of the Visitor's Center next week. You know I've been involved with Respecting Differences Coalition, the town-wide group that supports a safe and welcoming town for all of us, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. I wanted to let you know that Lexington CARES (the media campaign group that was formed to respond to the distortions and demands associated with the David Parker arrest at Estabrook School in April) has told us that on Tuesday, September 6th from 5:00 - 8:00 pm in Lexington Center, a series of events will be held to show support for David Parker. These events are being supported by the statewide group Mass family Institute, and possibly other non-Lexington activist groups. They will have a rally on the Green with speakers, a candle-light vigil in Depot Square, and a literature table in front of CVS, along with people holding signs on street corners in the Center. I know the timing is bad, but it's critically important to have a large group from Lexington there showing firm, but also silent and non-confrontational support for our schools - especially for the teachers, administrators and ALL the children who will walk into school the very next day. We're sure some media people will be there and we don't want them to walk away thinking Mr. Parker and the outside groups speak for all of us.The area in front of the Visitor's Center will be our home base; we'll have a table there with a banner and signs for anyone willing to carry one. I'd love to have you there from 5 -7 or later, if you can make it. YES? NO? NO Ok, thanks, don't hesitate to show up if your plans change. Come to the Visitor's Center.
Hesitant I don't want you to think you'll need to speak to anyone you don't know. We aren't there to argue. We just want to show, through our numbers, that the Lexington School System has the support of people in town. Even if you can only be there for an hour, I'd love to see you.YesThat's great! I'll send you an email with any more details as soon as I know them.YES, What else can I do?It would help so much if you would make some phone calls to people you know. We would rely on email, but the time is so short.- - - - - For this call we'll have to go over the Guidelines at least as far as: No engagement - don't respond to comments from Parker supporters No outward signs of political agenda (no buttons, rainbow pins, etc.) Suggestions for signs: Support Lexington Public Schools We support all our children We support all our families Welcome back to school EVERYONE
Meg Soens
The notice below is from Meg Soens (click here for her "wedding" photo), who is organizing the demonstration. She has a little website for her "Respecting Differences" front organization. (Note that the Lexington Police Dept. is listed as a supporter of her group!)
We wrote in May: "Lesbian radical activist ... Soens pops up all over town, including the Estabrook School anti-bias committee. How interesting that Soens also led a session at the infamous "Fistgate" GLSEN workshop in 2000, on how to incorporate gay and lesbian issues into an elementary school curriculum."
By the way, Meg has it wrong below about Mass. Family Institute running the rally. It is actually being organized by a grassroots group of Parker supporters. (And P.S. to Meg: You might want to check your distribution list, as MassResistance is surely not on your steering committee!) Here's what she has sent out to rally her troops:
Dear Respecting Differences steering committee friends --
I hope you all had a restful summer – and you wouldn’t be hearing from me now when summer isn’t quite yet gone if it wasn’t urgent.
We (wearing my hat as Lexington CARES co-chair) recently heard that the day after Labor Day (and the day before school starts again in Lexington) the largest statewide anti-gay political group in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Family Institute, will be holding a rally on our Lexington Green in support of David Parker and his discriminatory demands on our public schools. They will also be holding a candlelight vigil at the same time at Depot Sq., and will be holding signs and having a literature table in front of CVS and on all the corners across from the store. Looks like a saturation bombing campaign!
Mr. Parker is the Estabrook Elementary school parent who got himself arrested last April when the school officials refused to accede to his demands for “notification” and “excusing his child” that would have effectively forced the teachers and schools to make the kids of gay and lesbian headed families feel unwelcome and unsafe by sending the message that their families were bad and somehow dangerous. In other words, his demands would force the schools to discriminate against the children of gay and lesbian headed families.
Now the MFI is working with Mr. Parker to further their own broad anti-gay political agenda and intimidate local school and town officials and residents, and we need to counter their message. Lexington C.A.R.E.S., the media campaign group formed to counter the distorted messages that Parker and his right wing allies were so successfully putting out to the media, is organizing a silent counter vigil at the same time, and it makes such sense for those involved in the Respecting Differences Coalition to support and take part in this effort to bring the truth about the discriminatory demands out. To be effective, we need everyone who can make it to come and stand up for inclusive schools, and for all families in our schools. I expect that MFI will be bussin! g in people from all over the state since they have done that several times for the Constitutional Conventions recently, and we don’t need to match their numbers, but we do need a strong showing of Lexington folks to demonstrate opposition to Parker’s demands that would hurt our kids right here in our town and undermine years of commitment and work on the part of the Lexington public schools to create classrooms that are welcoming and safe for all children. If there is only one time this year when you can come out to an event in this arena, this is the one to come to.
Lexington CARES has put together a plan for a peaceful non-confrontationalsilent witness during the events : we will assemble at the town Visitor Center at 4:45 pm, (centrally located between the Green, where their rally will be held, and Depot Square, where their vigil will be held) and then walk in groups to the various MFI events to silently walk on the sidewalk with our signs. We are working with town management and safety officials to plan all this. Children are welcome, and since the rally goes from 5 pm until 7 pm you might encourage parents to bring picnics for their kids to be eaten at our gathering place, the Visitor Center. We will be behaving in the same way we did with the Phelps witness, basically silent, no interaction with the rally people. I also ask that if the press approach you, you direct them to the designated spokespeople of Lex C.A.R.E.S. who have media training and a great deal of practice getting our message about inclusive schools out there in interviews. Finally, LexCARES is asking that people not wear rainbow flags political buttons etc. to make it harder for the MFI to make it look like we are all gay and it is a gay versus straight battle. In addition, not bringing the rainbow flags underlines the fact that there is a broader principle underlying the struggle, that of treating all humans with dignity and respect, not just gay human beings.
So, please come to the Visitor Center on September 6 at 4:45, or one of our witness places after that, and please publicize our silent vigil as widely as possible. I also ask that you bring as many sympathetic people with you as possible. Personal phone calls are by far the most effective method especially given the tightness of time.
This is really a time your physical presence will make a very big difference both in terms of bearing witness to our town, and to the Boston area.
Also, if you have suggestions or reflections on this, I hope you will share them. I will be back in touch later in September about our first RD meeting for the year. I will be sending out this basic message to the entire RD list this afternoon, after time for some feedback from you. If you can call some people to come, I am copying a suggested telephone script below fyi Contact me if you can make some calls since I am coordinating the phone calling effort for LexCARES.
What else should RD do in regard to this event? A letter or commentary in the MM? A forum about the issues in October? Also, if you are individually interested in learning more about LEXCARES and perhaps joining, let me know and I will forward your email addresses to the person who is doing that piece of the work.
Thank you! And we will get together in the next few weeks to get going on Our other efforts in this town! Meg
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Telephone Script for 9/6 Gathering Hi, this is . I'm calling to let you know about a rally in front of the Visitor's Center next week. You know I've been involved with Respecting Differences Coalition, the town-wide group that supports a safe and welcoming town for all of us, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. I wanted to let you know that Lexington CARES (the media campaign group that was formed to respond to the distortions and demands associated with the David Parker arrest at Estabrook School in April) has told us that on Tuesday, September 6th from 5:00 - 8:00 pm in Lexington Center, a series of events will be held to show support for David Parker. These events are being supported by the statewide group Mass family Institute, and possibly other non-Lexington activist groups. They will have a rally on the Green with speakers, a candle-light vigil in Depot Square, and a literature table in front of CVS, along with people holding signs on street corners in the Center. I know the timing is bad, but it's critically important to have a large group from Lexington there showing firm, but also silent and non-confrontational support for our schools - especially for the teachers, administrators and ALL the children who will walk into school the very next day. We're sure some media people will be there and we don't want them to walk away thinking Mr. Parker and the outside groups speak for all of us.The area in front of the Visitor's Center will be our home base; we'll have a table there with a banner and signs for anyone willing to carry one. I'd love to have you there from 5 -7 or later, if you can make it. YES? NO? NO Ok, thanks, don't hesitate to show up if your plans change. Come to the Visitor's Center.
Hesitant I don't want you to think you'll need to speak to anyone you don't know. We aren't there to argue. We just want to show, through our numbers, that the Lexington School System has the support of people in town. Even if you can only be there for an hour, I'd love to see you.YesThat's great! I'll send you an email with any more details as soon as I know them.YES, What else can I do?It would help so much if you would make some phone calls to people you know. We would rely on email, but the time is so short.- - - - - For this call we'll have to go over the Guidelines at least as far as: No engagement - don't respond to comments from Parker supporters No outward signs of political agenda (no buttons, rainbow pins, etc.) Suggestions for signs: Support Lexington Public Schools We support all our children We support all our families Welcome back to school EVERYONE
Meg Soens
Friday, September 02, 2005
Follow the Money
Bay Windows' story on Hurricane Katrina focuses on the homosexual community there, primarily in the French Quarter. One astonishing tidbit is that last year's "Southern Decadence" event, held over Labor Day weekend in that city, brought in an estimated $100 million to the local economy.
Money talks. This is one big reason this movement has gotten where they have. They have lots of money to spend. (But wait... Wouldn't a minority suffering social and civil-rights "discrimination" be economically underprivileged as well?)
"For gay-friendly businesses in New Orleans, the hurricane could not have come at a worse time. The city's annual gay Mardi Gras event, Southern Decadence, which is also one of the largest annual gay celebrations in the country, was scheduled to run throughout the Labor Day Weekend. Southern Decadence was officially canceled on Tuesday, Aug. 30. According to New Orleans's gay magazine, Ambush, 125,000 people were expected attend the event's five-day series of parties which is highlighted by a parade through the French Quarter. Southern Decadence has drawn larger and larger crowds since its beginning in 1972. Ambush estimated its economic impact on the city last year was $100 million. Many make hotel reservations a year in advance to ensure accommodations."
Money talks. This is one big reason this movement has gotten where they have. They have lots of money to spend. (But wait... Wouldn't a minority suffering social and civil-rights "discrimination" be economically underprivileged as well?)
"For gay-friendly businesses in New Orleans, the hurricane could not have come at a worse time. The city's annual gay Mardi Gras event, Southern Decadence, which is also one of the largest annual gay celebrations in the country, was scheduled to run throughout the Labor Day Weekend. Southern Decadence was officially canceled on Tuesday, Aug. 30. According to New Orleans's gay magazine, Ambush, 125,000 people were expected attend the event's five-day series of parties which is highlighted by a parade through the French Quarter. Southern Decadence has drawn larger and larger crowds since its beginning in 1972. Ambush estimated its economic impact on the city last year was $100 million. Many make hotel reservations a year in advance to ensure accommodations."
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Find Alternative Charity: Red Cross Supports Homo Agenda
A friend has brought our attention to this letter from a pro-life minister, warning us not to trust the Red Cross with our funds. Sadly, that charity has been compromised by its support of the homosexual agenda.
(To be sure your donation goes where you want, here are just a few alternative charities which do NOT support the homosexual agenda: Samaritan's Purse; Feed the Children; The Salvation Army.)
Whether or not one believes the hand of God was in this disaster, without out a doubt we are happy to say "good riddance" to the "Southern Decadence" event which has been indefinitely postponed.
Dear Friends of the Preborn,
Just a quick note to encourage you NOT to give money to the American Red Cross. (All the media is appealing for Americans to do so for the Hurricane Katrina victims). Why not? Because they promote the homosexual agenda in our nation, and even have "Corporate Diversity Committees" and a "Chief Diversity Officer" to help implement the agenda. To top it all off, they recently fired a Christian for simply sharing his views regarding homosexuality. You can read about this matter by clicking on the following link:http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=8652&department=CFI&categoryid=family
Find a different charity to give to if you want to help the people down south.
By the way, because of Hurricane Katrina the sodomites won't be able to conduct their "Southern Decadence Days" wherein tens of thousands of sodomites come into New Orleans and do the most filthy things (even right out on the streets!). The city officials have welcomed them with open arms year after year. It would have begun this Thursday and went through to Labor Day.
If you feel bad that the residents in Gulfport and Biloxi had to suffer because of the sodomites and sodomite-loving magistrates in New Orleans, don't feel too bad because these towns are known as the "Gambling Capitols of the South" wherein thousands of elderly people go to blow their money, thus disinheriting their families. (So much is wasted that $500,000.00 is given to the State of Mississippi in taxes every single day!).
When God's judgment comes on a nation even the so-called "innocent" suffer because they turn a blind eye, tolerate, and live in peaceful co-existence with the evil in their midst. This nation is a corporate entity, and judgment is often dispensed corporately....
Pastor Matt Trewhella
Missionaries to the Preborn, Founder
http://www.missionariestopreborn.com
(To be sure your donation goes where you want, here are just a few alternative charities which do NOT support the homosexual agenda: Samaritan's Purse; Feed the Children; The Salvation Army.)
Whether or not one believes the hand of God was in this disaster, without out a doubt we are happy to say "good riddance" to the "Southern Decadence" event which has been indefinitely postponed.
Dear Friends of the Preborn,
Just a quick note to encourage you NOT to give money to the American Red Cross. (All the media is appealing for Americans to do so for the Hurricane Katrina victims). Why not? Because they promote the homosexual agenda in our nation, and even have "Corporate Diversity Committees" and a "Chief Diversity Officer" to help implement the agenda. To top it all off, they recently fired a Christian for simply sharing his views regarding homosexuality. You can read about this matter by clicking on the following link:http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=8652&department=CFI&categoryid=family
Find a different charity to give to if you want to help the people down south.
By the way, because of Hurricane Katrina the sodomites won't be able to conduct their "Southern Decadence Days" wherein tens of thousands of sodomites come into New Orleans and do the most filthy things (even right out on the streets!). The city officials have welcomed them with open arms year after year. It would have begun this Thursday and went through to Labor Day.
If you feel bad that the residents in Gulfport and Biloxi had to suffer because of the sodomites and sodomite-loving magistrates in New Orleans, don't feel too bad because these towns are known as the "Gambling Capitols of the South" wherein thousands of elderly people go to blow their money, thus disinheriting their families. (So much is wasted that $500,000.00 is given to the State of Mississippi in taxes every single day!).
When God's judgment comes on a nation even the so-called "innocent" suffer because they turn a blind eye, tolerate, and live in peaceful co-existence with the evil in their midst. This nation is a corporate entity, and judgment is often dispensed corporately....
Pastor Matt Trewhella
Missionaries to the Preborn, Founder
http://www.missionariestopreborn.com
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Yes, This Kindergarten Picture Book IS About Sex
Back-to-school time. Time to get back to questions about sex in kindergarten picture books.
Recently, homosexual extremists flooded David Parker's blog with their typical stream of nonsense and silly questions. They disputed the idea that the picture book (given without his knowledge to his kindergarten child) had anything to do with sex, and therefore is not covered by the Massachusetts Parental Notification law. The book, Who's In A Family, clearly gives the message that lesbian and "gay" couple parents are on a natural and moral par with traditional families.
MassResistance is not afraid to answer their silly questions. But how sad that it's necessary to state the obvious, and articulate what was once just common sense! (Note: Mr. MassResistance speaks only for himself, and no one else.)
Silly homosexual extremist question #1: You continue to duck and dodge the real issue behind the "cartoon picture book." What do pictures, stories, anecdotes, or any other representation of the makeup of an individual child's family have to do with sex and sexuality? And if two moms and their daughter washing the family dog IS about sex, then why isn't two heterosexual parents and their child sitting down to a meatloaf dinner about sex?
Silly homosexual extremist question #2: Many of us in the great anonymous Massachusetts wilderness have been waiting since April to hear David Parker explain, in his own words, just EXACTLY what "Who's in a Family" has to do with sex and sexuality. Because, the laws of the Commonwealth succinctly state that a parent may opt his/her child out of any classroom lesson or discussion dealing with sex and sexuality. Unless you can illucidate [sic] the "sexual" content of "What's [sic] in a Family" or any of the books in your child's kindergarten classroom (or freely available in the school library, for that matter), then you are asking to EXPAND and/or rewrite the established definition of parental notification.
MassResistance responds:
The basic problem here is that perverted sexual relationships are being forcefully injected into the daily lives of normal people. To say that the existing Parental Notification law in Massachusetts doesn't cover this possibility is like saying that John Adams should have spelled out (in the Massachusetts constitution) that sodomy was not a valid basis for marriage; or that since the Bible doesn't expressly mention credit card fraud, it's not stealing.
The attempted normalization of homosexual, lesbian, transsexual, bisexual, questioning, or polyamorous "marital" arrangements has changed everything. Where once we would have said that a pre-school picture book with scenes of families (with a mommy and a daddy) going about their daily activities was NOT about sex, once a two-daddy family is included, it IS about sex -- even for the traditional families portrayed.
The homosexual extremists have politicized and sexualized everything they come near. And they have destroyed the innocence of early childhood.
From the time a child comes into the world, he observes his parents (one male, one female) interact. Sometimes they hug or kiss. And yes, he registers the fact that they sleep in the same bed. And sometimes the bedroom door is locked and he hears noises. This is a child's normal introduction to sex. It is simply put before him in the context of normal, healthy family activities. Pictures of a normal two-parent family in a picture book do convey a message to the child: This is a family.
Usually, a child's introduction to this normal context of sex and sexuality is unremarkable and would not fall under the Massachusetts Parental Notification law. This is because such normal story books (or family photos) do not present the child with any jarring, startling, or unnatural concepts. His thoughts and imaginings will not proceed into the parents' bedroom at the age of 5 or 6 upon seeing a traditional family picture.
But the minute you present him with an abnormal, unusual, bizarre arrangement, which he knows instinctively in his gut is not right, is odd, off-kilter, or unnatural -- this will provoke a sense of uneasiness followed by new and strange imaginings. He'll ask (openly or privately), "Why does my classmate have two mommies? I thought a mommy needed a daddy to have a baby?"
If a young child is presented with a novel, unusual image of a family, with two mommies or two daddies (or three daddies?), the child will naturally next wonder if they kiss and hug and share a bed. How do they make babies? It's the perversion of normal relations that brings in SEX on a level beyond that a kindergartner should be dealing with. Then, it becomes a lesson on SEX at a level covered by state law protecting parental rights.
(Of course there's another question that we are not dealing with now: Does a school have the right to undermine parents' religious and moral beliefs they are trying to teach their child?)
We come back to the fact that heterosexual parenting is normal -- and the child absorbs the inherent sex lesson slowly, by osmosis. But abnormal homosexual couplings are forcing the child to imagine questions about sexual activities that would otherwise come at a much older age. It's homosexual perversion being forcefully pushed into our faces that's causing a problem.
The Parker case is about "coercive indoctrination" of vulnerable, very young children. The homosexual activists know how powerful images are in their brainwashing campaign. That's why they're putting this book into little children's hands without parental knowledge.
Recently, homosexual extremists flooded David Parker's blog with their typical stream of nonsense and silly questions. They disputed the idea that the picture book (given without his knowledge to his kindergarten child) had anything to do with sex, and therefore is not covered by the Massachusetts Parental Notification law. The book, Who's In A Family, clearly gives the message that lesbian and "gay" couple parents are on a natural and moral par with traditional families.
MassResistance is not afraid to answer their silly questions. But how sad that it's necessary to state the obvious, and articulate what was once just common sense! (Note: Mr. MassResistance speaks only for himself, and no one else.)
Silly homosexual extremist question #1: You continue to duck and dodge the real issue behind the "cartoon picture book." What do pictures, stories, anecdotes, or any other representation of the makeup of an individual child's family have to do with sex and sexuality? And if two moms and their daughter washing the family dog IS about sex, then why isn't two heterosexual parents and their child sitting down to a meatloaf dinner about sex?
Silly homosexual extremist question #2: Many of us in the great anonymous Massachusetts wilderness have been waiting since April to hear David Parker explain, in his own words, just EXACTLY what "Who's in a Family" has to do with sex and sexuality. Because, the laws of the Commonwealth succinctly state that a parent may opt his/her child out of any classroom lesson or discussion dealing with sex and sexuality. Unless you can illucidate [sic] the "sexual" content of "What's [sic] in a Family" or any of the books in your child's kindergarten classroom (or freely available in the school library, for that matter), then you are asking to EXPAND and/or rewrite the established definition of parental notification.
MassResistance responds:
The basic problem here is that perverted sexual relationships are being forcefully injected into the daily lives of normal people. To say that the existing Parental Notification law in Massachusetts doesn't cover this possibility is like saying that John Adams should have spelled out (in the Massachusetts constitution) that sodomy was not a valid basis for marriage; or that since the Bible doesn't expressly mention credit card fraud, it's not stealing.
The attempted normalization of homosexual, lesbian, transsexual, bisexual, questioning, or polyamorous "marital" arrangements has changed everything. Where once we would have said that a pre-school picture book with scenes of families (with a mommy and a daddy) going about their daily activities was NOT about sex, once a two-daddy family is included, it IS about sex -- even for the traditional families portrayed.
The homosexual extremists have politicized and sexualized everything they come near. And they have destroyed the innocence of early childhood.
From the time a child comes into the world, he observes his parents (one male, one female) interact. Sometimes they hug or kiss. And yes, he registers the fact that they sleep in the same bed. And sometimes the bedroom door is locked and he hears noises. This is a child's normal introduction to sex. It is simply put before him in the context of normal, healthy family activities. Pictures of a normal two-parent family in a picture book do convey a message to the child: This is a family.
Usually, a child's introduction to this normal context of sex and sexuality is unremarkable and would not fall under the Massachusetts Parental Notification law. This is because such normal story books (or family photos) do not present the child with any jarring, startling, or unnatural concepts. His thoughts and imaginings will not proceed into the parents' bedroom at the age of 5 or 6 upon seeing a traditional family picture.
But the minute you present him with an abnormal, unusual, bizarre arrangement, which he knows instinctively in his gut is not right, is odd, off-kilter, or unnatural -- this will provoke a sense of uneasiness followed by new and strange imaginings. He'll ask (openly or privately), "Why does my classmate have two mommies? I thought a mommy needed a daddy to have a baby?"
If a young child is presented with a novel, unusual image of a family, with two mommies or two daddies (or three daddies?), the child will naturally next wonder if they kiss and hug and share a bed. How do they make babies? It's the perversion of normal relations that brings in SEX on a level beyond that a kindergartner should be dealing with. Then, it becomes a lesson on SEX at a level covered by state law protecting parental rights.
(Of course there's another question that we are not dealing with now: Does a school have the right to undermine parents' religious and moral beliefs they are trying to teach their child?)
We come back to the fact that heterosexual parenting is normal -- and the child absorbs the inherent sex lesson slowly, by osmosis. But abnormal homosexual couplings are forcing the child to imagine questions about sexual activities that would otherwise come at a much older age. It's homosexual perversion being forcefully pushed into our faces that's causing a problem.
The Parker case is about "coercive indoctrination" of vulnerable, very young children. The homosexual activists know how powerful images are in their brainwashing campaign. That's why they're putting this book into little children's hands without parental knowledge.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
BAGLY Pushing "TransGeneration" Show on Teens
BAGLY ("Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth"; see entry below) is now targeting our teens with a new documentary series called "TransGeneration". The documentary, produced by the Sundance channel & Logo (the new queer TV network), premieres on TV September 20 at 9 p.m.
BAGLY is announcing a pre-screening of the show on Sept. 7. This organization is supposedly helping our troubled teens steer clear of suicidal thoughts (for which it receives Massachusetts tax dollars!). How will pushing this perversion help them? The flyer for the series states:
This eight-part program charts one year in the lives of four college students undergoing gender transition.
Gabbie, Lucas, Raci and T. J. are confronting the challenges of school, campus life, family ... and changing their sex. TransGeneration joins them at four different schools across America as the quartet -- two transitioning from female to male and two transitioning from male to female -- define who they are and take control of their gender identity.
It seems that new recruits are needed in the sex-changed population. There aren't enough people who understand the diagram handed out to Massachusetts public school children at GLSEN's conference last April. Children who attend BAGLY's trans workshops hear about how Grace (BAGLY Executive Director), as a "trans male-to-female", discusses "her" sexuality with the men "she" has sex with. Gems from a trans discussion at the GLSEN conference:
Our language breaks down… What do you call a trans-man attracted to a woman? [and other combinations] This culture is not set up for trans people. Grace Stowell said she tells men right up front, "I'm a transgender woman." Most of the men she's been with were either gay men or bisexual men.
What if a son says, "Mom, Dad, I'm bringing home a man." vs. "Mom, Dad, I'm bringing home a trans man."?
Male-to-female participant said before she started going through the change, she was not perceived as a gay man. People would address him/her as a lady, even though she (?) still had facial hair…people "must have thought I was a butch femme."
Panelist Michelle: Since she's pre-op, she still has "...titties and a penis, so it's just more to play with."
Panelist Mike: Likes "bears" and his current friend is a bear. [Some of the audience members murmured in reaction to this. …A bear, or sometimes "teddy bear," is a slang term for a big, fat, hairy man.]
Lesbian female attendee said how she used to date another lesbian female, but that lesbian female transitioned to a male. However, she doesn't now consider herself to be straight; she claimed she is still a dyke. Panelist Mike affirmed this phenomenon, stating that "there are a lot of lesbian couples where one transitions."
BAGLY is announcing a pre-screening of the show on Sept. 7. This organization is supposedly helping our troubled teens steer clear of suicidal thoughts (for which it receives Massachusetts tax dollars!). How will pushing this perversion help them? The flyer for the series states:
(x) Financial Aid
(x) Meal Plan
*SEX Change
*SEX Change
This eight-part program charts one year in the lives of four college students undergoing gender transition.
Gabbie, Lucas, Raci and T. J. are confronting the challenges of school, campus life, family ... and changing their sex. TransGeneration joins them at four different schools across America as the quartet -- two transitioning from female to male and two transitioning from male to female -- define who they are and take control of their gender identity.
TRANS
GENERATION
It seems that new recruits are needed in the sex-changed population. There aren't enough people who understand the diagram handed out to Massachusetts public school children at GLSEN's conference last April. Children who attend BAGLY's trans workshops hear about how Grace (BAGLY Executive Director), as a "trans male-to-female", discusses "her" sexuality with the men "she" has sex with. Gems from a trans discussion at the GLSEN conference:
Our language breaks down… What do you call a trans-man attracted to a woman? [and other combinations] This culture is not set up for trans people. Grace Stowell said she tells men right up front, "I'm a transgender woman." Most of the men she's been with were either gay men or bisexual men.
What if a son says, "Mom, Dad, I'm bringing home a man." vs. "Mom, Dad, I'm bringing home a trans man."?
Male-to-female participant said before she started going through the change, she was not perceived as a gay man. People would address him/her as a lady, even though she (?) still had facial hair…people "must have thought I was a butch femme."
Panelist Michelle: Since she's pre-op, she still has "...titties and a penis, so it's just more to play with."
Panelist Mike: Likes "bears" and his current friend is a bear. [Some of the audience members murmured in reaction to this. …A bear, or sometimes "teddy bear," is a slang term for a big, fat, hairy man.]
Lesbian female attendee said how she used to date another lesbian female, but that lesbian female transitioned to a male. However, she doesn't now consider herself to be straight; she claimed she is still a dyke. Panelist Mike affirmed this phenomenon, stating that "there are a lot of lesbian couples where one transitions."
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Is This What You Want for Your Son?

Is this what you want for your son?
Grace Sterling Stowell, Executive Director of BAGLY ("Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth "), at the recent "Youth Pride" event in Boston. Stowell is a "male-to-female transsexual" and proclaims the large presence of "trans" young people in BAGLY. BAGLY directs young teen boys to a website detailing male-to-female sex-change surgical procedures. BAGLY is supported in part by your tax dollars. The "Youth Pride" event is sponsored by the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth.
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Weld for NY Governor?
Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld is planning to run for governor of New York. He seems to realize he has a slight problem: his enthusiastic support for all things "gay" while Governor of Massachusetts.
The Boston Globe reports that Weld now claims his support for homosexual "marriage" extends only to the Massachusetts borders. But then how can it be a "civil right"? Is there a different definition of "civil rights" in New York than in Boston?
Bill Weld is responsible for letting GLSEN get a foothold in the public schools of Massachusetts to pollute our children with its pro-homosexual propaganda. (Then GLSEN built on its Massachusetts model to infiltrate schools across America.) Thanks to Weld, the "Governor's Commission on Gay & Lesbian Youth" will be hard to dismantle.
Has the press forgotten that Weld officiated at the "marriage" of his Harvard roommate to another man, just one year ago? Does Weld believe his friend Mitchell Adams is "married" while in Massachusetts, but "unmarried" while residing at his elegant Maine vacation home?
On June 22, 2004, 365Gay.com reported:
While current Republican Governor Mitt Romney was in Washington telling a Senate hearing that if Congress doesn't pass a constitutional amendment gay marriage will "spread like wildfire" across the nation, former Massachusetts GOP Governor William F. Weld was officiating at the gay marriage of his old college roommate.
Mitchell Adams, Weld's closest friend at university and a former Mass. revenue commissioner, married Weld's former chief of staff Kevin Smith. The former governor read the homily at the ceremony at King's Chapel.
The marriage was the first same-sex ceremony Weld has attended. "I was terrified when I saw I'd been assigned the homily. I didn't know what a homily was so I just told war stories about Mitchell and Kevin," he said.
Weld told reporters that he's opposed to any constitutional amendment barring gay marriage. He said that if he were not at the wedding he would have been in Washington opposing Romney.
The Boston Globe reports that Weld now claims his support for homosexual "marriage" extends only to the Massachusetts borders. But then how can it be a "civil right"? Is there a different definition of "civil rights" in New York than in Boston?
Bill Weld is responsible for letting GLSEN get a foothold in the public schools of Massachusetts to pollute our children with its pro-homosexual propaganda. (Then GLSEN built on its Massachusetts model to infiltrate schools across America.) Thanks to Weld, the "Governor's Commission on Gay & Lesbian Youth" will be hard to dismantle.
Has the press forgotten that Weld officiated at the "marriage" of his Harvard roommate to another man, just one year ago? Does Weld believe his friend Mitchell Adams is "married" while in Massachusetts, but "unmarried" while residing at his elegant Maine vacation home?
On June 22, 2004, 365Gay.com reported:
While current Republican Governor Mitt Romney was in Washington telling a Senate hearing that if Congress doesn't pass a constitutional amendment gay marriage will "spread like wildfire" across the nation, former Massachusetts GOP Governor William F. Weld was officiating at the gay marriage of his old college roommate.
Mitchell Adams, Weld's closest friend at university and a former Mass. revenue commissioner, married Weld's former chief of staff Kevin Smith. The former governor read the homily at the ceremony at King's Chapel.
The marriage was the first same-sex ceremony Weld has attended. "I was terrified when I saw I'd been assigned the homily. I didn't know what a homily was so I just told war stories about Mitchell and Kevin," he said.
Weld told reporters that he's opposed to any constitutional amendment barring gay marriage. He said that if he were not at the wedding he would have been in Washington opposing Romney.
Friday, August 19, 2005
This Is Gay Pride???
This is "Gay Pride"?
Maybe in 1997 we could have said this was sad. Now we are supposed to say it's perfectly healthy and normal?
Lawmaker Doesn't Know the Definition of "Legal"
Bay Windows recently reported on East Boston State Rep. Anthony Petruccelli's announcement that he will oppose any amendment which will take away the "right" to homosexual "marriage". What is striking in his "thinking" is that it is all based on emotions.
As a "lawmaker", he should realize that since the Legislature has failed to act on this issue of "marriage" (as required by the state constitution), homosexual "marriages" are without statutory basis so are still not legal. Yet he says he doesn't want to take away "something that they cherish". But where do "rights" come from -- the Supreme Judicial Court, or God? We may write constitutions to protect rights, but no human institution creates rights.
Would Rep. Petruccelli please define "marriage" and its role in society, and not just think about it on an emotional level?
From Bay Windows (August 18, 2005):
While he says he has always believed that same-sex couples should be treated equally to heterosexual couples, Petruccelli said his vote for the so-called compromise amendment resulted in part from his belief that the convention was destined to pass some version of an amendment and that supporting the least drastic of those was the right thing to do. What led him to change his mind, ultimately, was the reality that as of May 17, 2004, same-sex couples in Massachusetts entered into legal marriages and it would be wrong to now roll back their rights.
"I think that has changed things dramatically," said Petruccelli. "And it makes it easy for me to look at this issue and say, who am I to take away something from someone that they cherish, that they already have? I think that is probably the strongest aspect of why I feel strongly about voting no in the [next] convention." Petrucelli noted that he and his wife will celebrate their three-year anniversary in September and while their lives have not changed since May 17, 2004, it has impacted the lives of same-sex couples positively. "Its made stronger unions among people who have not had the opportunity up until that time to get married," he observes. Civil unions, he has concluded, would obviously be "a major step backwards in equality." The lawmaker also said he is opposed to the initiative petition drive recently launched by same-sex marriage opponents to put a marriage ban on the 2008 ballot.
As a "lawmaker", he should realize that since the Legislature has failed to act on this issue of "marriage" (as required by the state constitution), homosexual "marriages" are without statutory basis so are still not legal. Yet he says he doesn't want to take away "something that they cherish". But where do "rights" come from -- the Supreme Judicial Court, or God? We may write constitutions to protect rights, but no human institution creates rights.
Would Rep. Petruccelli please define "marriage" and its role in society, and not just think about it on an emotional level?
From Bay Windows (August 18, 2005):
While he says he has always believed that same-sex couples should be treated equally to heterosexual couples, Petruccelli said his vote for the so-called compromise amendment resulted in part from his belief that the convention was destined to pass some version of an amendment and that supporting the least drastic of those was the right thing to do. What led him to change his mind, ultimately, was the reality that as of May 17, 2004, same-sex couples in Massachusetts entered into legal marriages and it would be wrong to now roll back their rights.
"I think that has changed things dramatically," said Petruccelli. "And it makes it easy for me to look at this issue and say, who am I to take away something from someone that they cherish, that they already have? I think that is probably the strongest aspect of why I feel strongly about voting no in the [next] convention." Petrucelli noted that he and his wife will celebrate their three-year anniversary in September and while their lives have not changed since May 17, 2004, it has impacted the lives of same-sex couples positively. "Its made stronger unions among people who have not had the opportunity up until that time to get married," he observes. Civil unions, he has concluded, would obviously be "a major step backwards in equality." The lawmaker also said he is opposed to the initiative petition drive recently launched by same-sex marriage opponents to put a marriage ban on the 2008 ballot.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Religion in Provincetown
So what do homosexual extremists really think of religion? Stephen Bennett, a Christian ex-gay who ministers to the homosexual community, tells what happened to his group when they visited Provincetown last summer.
"Last year, the Provincetown Chief of Police alerted many of the homosexual activist organizations ahead of time [of his group's visit] and they met the 100+ [Stephen Bennett Ministries] evangelists with protests, signs, yelling and more. An extremist fringe of homosexual activists who knew SBM was coming (mostly angry lesbians) took over 200 Bibles from the evangelists (saying they wanted one) and then threw them in garbage cans all over town. SBM recovered these Bibles out of the garbage cans."
"Last year, the Provincetown Chief of Police alerted many of the homosexual activist organizations ahead of time [of his group's visit] and they met the 100+ [Stephen Bennett Ministries] evangelists with protests, signs, yelling and more. An extremist fringe of homosexual activists who knew SBM was coming (mostly angry lesbians) took over 200 Bibles from the evangelists (saying they wanted one) and then threw them in garbage cans all over town. SBM recovered these Bibles out of the garbage cans."
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Cultural Marxism: The Most Dangerous Ideology
Here's a great article by Paul Weyrich that ties it all together. Starting with Russell Kirk's point that Conservatism is, by definition, not an ideology, he goes on to expose the reigning ideology of "cultural Marxism" -- the common thread running through "liberalism", feminism, homosexual extremism, PC'ism, multiculturalism, the attack on the traditional family and Judeo-Christian values, etc.
See "The Danger of the Ideological State" by Paul M. Weyrich (from Agape Press, August 15, 2005).
See "The Danger of the Ideological State" by Paul M. Weyrich (from Agape Press, August 15, 2005).
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Carnival in Provincetown
We just read on Article 8 Alliance of Queertoday's upset over "religious terrorism" from Christian ex-gays.
Ex-gays simply spread the word that God's truth can provide the way out of an unhappy homosexual "lifestyle". But the homosexual extremists are twisting the ex-gay message, portraying it as an attack on their freedom, health, and safety.
Queertoday's phrase reminded us of another phrase in vogue with their movement, "spiritual violence", which they apply to the traditional Judeo-Christian understanding of Biblical teachings on homosexuality.
Any religious value or belief which interferes with homosexuals' value-free, hedonistic "lifestyle" is now branded in this way. The implication of these two phrases is clear: that those defending traditional values are aggressive, criminal perpetrators of violence. Does this include your church?
Contrast the homosexual extremists' phony use of "religion" with genuine expressions of their attitude towards religion. Look at their "carnival" in Provincetown. (And note how the Boston Herald reports on the carnival line-up straightforwardly, as if this event were totally mainstream!)
Just a few events from the P'town carnival: There's a drag queen bingo night at the Unitarian-Universalist "church". And the UU's hosting a "performance artist" whose "impersonations of the political enemies of the left are spectacularly blasphemous and depraved. Adult content is definitely included. Watch her bear witness, but hold on to your faith because Starlite is bringing the apocalypse closer with every show!"
So ... if your church doesn't host such events, but instead teaches that homosexuality is contrary to God's law, is it guilty of "religious terrorism"?
And if you are taken aback by the message of a drag queen performance (see below), are you guilty of "spiritual violence"? How could you possibly object to "her" invitation to join "her" on a "frolicsome path towards hell and damnation"?
From the Provincetown Banner: "Varla Jean Merman is a queen among queens!
"A big red apple poses no threat to this lady eve. Nor does a snake enthrall her for any longer than a costume change. Varla Jean Merman has committed her fair share of transgressions in her time and in her new show, "I'm Not Paying for This!", she takes the audience with her on a frolicsome path towards hell and damnation....
Varla still has time to declare that she refuses to pay for that dull package of judgments that nameless others are so fond of doling out. Oh no, Varla can make her own world somewhere over the rainbow and it is everybody else that is going to want to pay to see her seriously masterful presentation of an innocent romp through the seven deadly sins."
Ex-gays simply spread the word that God's truth can provide the way out of an unhappy homosexual "lifestyle". But the homosexual extremists are twisting the ex-gay message, portraying it as an attack on their freedom, health, and safety.
Queertoday's phrase reminded us of another phrase in vogue with their movement, "spiritual violence", which they apply to the traditional Judeo-Christian understanding of Biblical teachings on homosexuality.
Any religious value or belief which interferes with homosexuals' value-free, hedonistic "lifestyle" is now branded in this way. The implication of these two phrases is clear: that those defending traditional values are aggressive, criminal perpetrators of violence. Does this include your church?
Contrast the homosexual extremists' phony use of "religion" with genuine expressions of their attitude towards religion. Look at their "carnival" in Provincetown. (And note how the Boston Herald reports on the carnival line-up straightforwardly, as if this event were totally mainstream!)
Just a few events from the P'town carnival: There's a drag queen bingo night at the Unitarian-Universalist "church". And the UU's hosting a "performance artist" whose "impersonations of the political enemies of the left are spectacularly blasphemous and depraved. Adult content is definitely included. Watch her bear witness, but hold on to your faith because Starlite is bringing the apocalypse closer with every show!"
So ... if your church doesn't host such events, but instead teaches that homosexuality is contrary to God's law, is it guilty of "religious terrorism"?
And if you are taken aback by the message of a drag queen performance (see below), are you guilty of "spiritual violence"? How could you possibly object to "her" invitation to join "her" on a "frolicsome path towards hell and damnation"?
From the Provincetown Banner: "Varla Jean Merman is a queen among queens!
"A big red apple poses no threat to this lady eve. Nor does a snake enthrall her for any longer than a costume change. Varla Jean Merman has committed her fair share of transgressions in her time and in her new show, "I'm Not Paying for This!", she takes the audience with her on a frolicsome path towards hell and damnation....
Varla still has time to declare that she refuses to pay for that dull package of judgments that nameless others are so fond of doling out. Oh no, Varla can make her own world somewhere over the rainbow and it is everybody else that is going to want to pay to see her seriously masterful presentation of an innocent romp through the seven deadly sins."
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
R&R for MassResistance
Even the Resistance has to take a breather once in a while. So postings will be sporadic and unpredictable over the next few weeks. We plan to reacquaint ourselves with Henry James, practice our skills so wonderfully protected by the Second Amendment, and maybe take a few day trips to Provincetown. In the meantime, watch for good stuff being posted DAILY on Article 8 Alliance. We will return!
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